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by Tanya Combrinck

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Content strategy 101, Part 3: put knowledge into action

by Sandi Wassmer

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Facebook’s top 10 social design secrets

by Paul Adams

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Designers respond to Flickr revamp

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Interview

Abbie Walsh on focusing on mobile

Why Fjord chose mobile as its design platform

19 Nov 2012

By Tanya Combrinck on November 19, 2012

Fjord’s service design director Abbie Walsh tells us why the agency chose mobile as its design platform, and how London is infused with extra energy and a can-do spirit after the Olympics
Feature

The top 50 books for web designers and developers

The books you should be devouring this holiday season

19 Nov 2012

By Craig Grannell on November 19, 2012 | 48 comments

With the holidays fast approaching, Craig Grannell quizzes the web industry’s finest about the essential books you should be giving to that special designer or developer in your life, or devouring yourself while stuffed full of mince pies
Blog

Giving Children in Need a digital voice

The challenges of building a cross platform video creation app

16 Nov 2012

By Michael Naman on November 16, 2012

Michael Naman, head of creative technology at Weapon7, describes the challenges of building a cross-platform video creation and sharing app for Children in Need
Feature

10 simple ways to secure your Wordpress site

Some simple housekeeping can make a world of difference

16 Nov 2012

By Kim Crawley on November 16, 2012 | 3 comments

Some simple housekeeping can make a world of difference to the likelihood of your site getting hacked. Kim Crawley has the tricks
Blog

Converting Likes into sales

Why retailers should be more socially aware

15 Nov 2012

By Seamus Whittingham on November 15, 2012 | 2 comments

Seamus Whittingham explains why he thinks retailers should be more socially aware
Tutorial

A responsive workflow for Axure

Add responsive features to Axure by using a framework

15 Nov 2012

By Panayiotis Karabetis on November 15, 2012 | 8 comments

Axure may be shy of responsive features, but the beloved UX tool can still be used on your next responsive project with a little help from responsive frameworks
Blog

Big Mouth: Mission Imp Possible

How social media makes self-destruction so much simpler these days

14 Nov 2012

By Gary Marshall on November 14, 2012

Social media and the always-on devices sitting in your pocket make self-destruction so much simpler these days – and on an infinitely larger scale, explains Gary Marshall
Feature

Hot in web standards: September/October 2012

Lea Verou on the latest developments at the W3C

14 Nov 2012

By Lea Verou on November 14, 2012

Lea Verou on the latest developments at the W3C including the new W3C Dev Relations initiative, WebPlatform.org and the Test The Web Forward event
Interview

Philip Letts on blur Group

blur Group CEO Philip Letts on his skills exchange service

13 Nov 2012

By Tanya Combrinck on November 13, 2012

blur Group CEO Philip Letts explains how designers and developers can benefit from his skills exchange service that enables them to pitch online for international business
Tutorial

Get started with mobile SEO

Optimise for mobile users and make the most out of mobile search

13 Nov 2012

By Aleyda Solis on November 13, 2012 | 7 comments

Optimise your site for its mobile audience and make the most of the mobile search opportunity: Aleyda Solis shows the way
Interview

Remy Sharp on learning by breaking stuff

Left Logic, the importance of teaching, and his five year plan

12 Nov 2012

By Tanya Combrinck on November 12, 2012

Developer, HTML5 Doctor, author and educator Remy Sharp chats to Tanya Combrinck about how he founded Left Logic, why teaching is so important to him and what he has planned for the next five years
Feature

UX design for startups: efficient design techniques

How to weave UX considerations into visual design process

12 Nov 2012

By Marcin Treder on November 12, 2012

Marcin Treder of UXPin explains how to weave UX considerations into the visual design process and create an efficient workflow
Blog

Taking the soul out of social media networks

Social media giants are selling out

9 Nov 2012

By Paul Johnson on November 09, 2012 | 3 comments

Paul Johnson, head of development at Livelink, discusses recent changes at Facebook and Twitter that have been made to prioritise advertisers and revenue over the interests of users
Feature

Inside the labs of the world's leading digital agencies

We take an exclusive look inside the world’s leading digital labs

9 Nov 2012

By Dan Oliver on November 09, 2012

We take an exclusive look inside the world’s leading digital labs, and reveal what it takes to staff, fund and operate your very own agency lab
Feature

Big question: how do you handle project management?

We ask our panel what the role of a project manager should be

8 Nov 2012

By Tanya Combrinck on November 08, 2012 | 1 comment

Andy Rutledge recently argued that project managers often do more harm than good. We asked our expert panel what the role of a project manager should be.